Why did Mitch McConnell use the word "rimrack"???

[kentuck]

...and during the family viewing hour. Several times...

Did he not know the meaning? It's rather odd.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rimrack

[Throd]

1. Maybe he does and he's messing with you.

Probably not, though.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Mitch McConnell and rimrack in the same sentence?

[kentuck]

3. :-)

[CherokeeDem]

4. Oh... I think he knows...

He's just being the ass that he is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It has another, older meaning, basically "to damage."

The Dictionary of American Regional English says "it comes from the words rim (of a wheel) and rack (to twist or strain) and it means "to damage or destroy, esp. by misuse," or "to ruin, cheat," or "ruined, worn out, rickety," or "a foul-up."" http://www.courier-journal.com/story/politics-blog/2014/10/14/twitter-rimracked-by-mcconnell/17252879/

I'm reasonably sure McTurtle meant it in that sense, not the Urban Dictionary's more lurid meaning. I doubt he's even familiar with that meaning; until today, neither was I. Still, it's all pretty funny.

[niyad]

8. I didn't know "teabagging" had a meaning other than the act of making tea until the teabaggers came

along, either!

[Rex]

6. Maybe it means something different to man-turtles.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. He's almost TOO turtle-y for the Turtle Club

[niyad]

9. how is it that these oh-so-repressed pukes use all these words that have such highly sexualized

meanings that never occurred to most of us?